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...Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer silent-film maker D.W. Griffith, was released in 1915. It is generally considered a landmark film--it was the first to use moving cameras and night filming. It presents a militantly anti-black view of the South during Reconstruction
Birth of a Nation, by D.W. Griffith, with The Great Train Robbery, Friday and Saturday, October...
Intolerance (1916). D.W. Griffith's silent epic...
...surprising number of local judges cited the Nixon pardon as prompting them to treat offenders leniently. Los Angeles Municipal Judge Gilbert Alston ordered the release of a Viet Nam veteran who had held three hostages at riflepoint in Griffith Park during an alleged "combat flashback." Explained the judge: "If a man who almost wrecked the country can be pardoned, this defendant can be released to get proper treatment." The release was countermanded by a higher judge. County Judge Kirk Smith pardoned two traffic law violators in Grand Forks, N.D., as "an act of clemency" in response to Ford's action...
Professor Francis Griffith is wrong...